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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 81, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.241303
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- German DFG [AS327/2-1, HA5893/1-1]
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We calculate bulk transport properties of two-dimensional topological insulators based on HgTe quantum wells in the ballistic regime. Interestingly, we find that the conductance and the shot noise are distinctively different for the so-called normal regime (the topologically trivial case) and the so-called inverted regime (the topologically nontrivial case). Thus, it is possible to verify the topological order of a two-dimensional topological insulator not only via observable edge properties but also via observable bulk properties. This is important because we show that under certain conditions the bulk contribution can dominate the edge contribution which makes it essential to fully understand the former for the interpretation of future experiments in clean samples.
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